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Published online 13 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021209-11
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Sea squirt sequenced
Our spineless relative joins ranks of complete genomes.
Scientists have sequenced the sea squirt1. This latest genome promises insights into how animals develop, and how those with backbones evolved from those without.
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